The Grand Challenges for computer science

Computer scientists are working on a series of research proposals that
they hope will result in advances comparable in significance to the
Human Genome project.

The UK Computing Research Committee, a joint expert panel of the
Institute of Electrical Engineers and the British Computer Society, is
working with the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing to start
seven new projects.

The hope is that some, or at least one, of the initiatives will be
taken forward to become a Grand Challenge - a major, long term project
that will create great advances in computer science.